LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

EIN 38-2576021 SAULT S MARIE, MI

Revenue 2024: $8,633,232
Expenses 2024: $2,960,455

Program services were 84.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: B43I
Classification: 1000
Street: 650 W EASTERDAY AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Lake Superior State University Foundation exists for the sole purpose of promoting, receiving, managing, and disbursing donations and contributions for the benefit of Lake Superior State University.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Lake Superior State University Foundation's sole purpose is to promote, receive, manage, and disburse donations and contributions for the benefit of Lake Superior State University.

The Lake Superior State University Foundation exists for the sole purpose of promoting, receiving, managing, and disbursing certain private donations and contributions for the benefit of Lake Superior State University.

Expenses $2,508,840 · Grants $2,508,840

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Sharon Dorrity

Secretary of Board/Coord Donor Relations

Total calculated

$43,944

From this org

$0

From related orgs

$43,944

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
Scott P Smith

Vice President of Advancement

Total calculated

$29,690

From this org

$0

From related orgs

$29,690

Other

$0

Hours/week

7.06 + 32.94 related
Edward F Smith

Chair & Executive Committee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Carol Andary

Board Member-Executive Committee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Brittany Barrett

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
H James Bourque

Emeritus

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Joseph Breed

Board Member-Executive Committee-Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Jennifer Brown

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Anthony Damiano

Board Member-Executive Committee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Megan Fenlon

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Jason Garvon

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Ted Haapala

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Robert Kjolhede

Board Member-Executive Committee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Ashley O'Dwyer

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Thomas G Robinson

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
David Saunders

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Charles Schmidt

Board Member-Executive Committee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Ken Williams

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Michael Wyse

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Maurice Walworth

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Dr David Travis

Second Vice Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Kevin Cooper

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Tim Lukenda

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$8,633,232

Expenses

$2,960,455

Contributions

$3,833,128

Grants paid

$2,508,840
2023

Revenue

$2,984,410

Expenses

$2,356,656

Contributions

$2,099,060

Grants paid

$1,822,322
2022

Revenue

$3,637,982

Expenses

$2,166,565

Contributions

$2,724,286

Grants paid

$1,467,285
2022

Revenue

$3,637,982

Expenses

$2,166,565

Contributions

$2,724,286

Grants paid

$1,467,285

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$8,633,232	$2,960,455	$3,833,128	$2,508,840
2023	$2,984,410	$2,356,656	$2,099,060	$1,822,322
2022	$3,637,982	$2,166,565	$2,724,286	$1,467,285
2022	$3,637,982	$2,166,565	$2,724,286	$1,467,285

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$4,258,550

Expenses

$2,012,449

Assets (EOY)

$22,456,507
2021 · 990

Revenue

$4,258,550

Expenses

$2,012,449

Assets (EOY)

$22,456,507
2020 · 990

Revenue

$4,430,858

Expenses

$2,679,878

Assets (EOY)

$25,335,019
2019 · 990

Revenue

$3,515,010

Expenses

$3,373,819

Assets (EOY)

$20,594,938
2018 · 990

Revenue

$3,584,409

Expenses

$2,621,166

Assets (EOY)

$21,869,131
2017 · 990

Revenue

$4,336,925

Expenses

$1,807,919

Assets (EOY)

$20,896,221
2016 · 990

Revenue

$2,751,221

Expenses

$1,446,623

Assets (EOY)

$17,740,170
2015 · 990

Revenue

$3,694,951

Expenses

$2,097,646

Assets (EOY)

$15,363,311
2014 · 990

Revenue

$3,730,782

Expenses

$2,640,342

Assets (EOY)

$14,256,808
2013 · 990

Revenue

$3,283,261

Expenses

$1,675,442

Assets (EOY)

$13,199,750

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$4,258,550	$2,012,449	$22,456,507
2021	990	$4,258,550	$2,012,449	$22,456,507
2020	990	$4,430,858	$2,679,878	$25,335,019
2019	990	$3,515,010	$3,373,819	$20,594,938
2018	990	$3,584,409	$2,621,166	$21,869,131
2017	990	$4,336,925	$1,807,919	$20,896,221
2016	990	$2,751,221	$1,446,623	$17,740,170
2015	990	$3,694,951	$2,097,646	$15,363,311
2014	990	$3,730,782	$2,640,342	$14,256,808
2013	990	$3,283,261	$1,675,442	$13,199,750

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Lake Superior State University

$2,489,746

2024 Scholarships and grants to the students of Lake Superior State University; funding for various educational activities carried out by Lake Superior State University; operational support for athletics; and support for Lake Superior State University operations.
Lake Superior State University

$1,788,737

2023 Scholarships and grants to the students of Lake Superior State University; funding for various educational activities carried out by Lake Superior State University; operational support for athletics; and support for Lake Superior State University operations.
Lake Superior State University

$1,454,585

2022 Scholarships and grants to the students of Lake Superior State University; funding for various educational activities carried out by Lake Superior State University; operational support for athletics; and support for Lake Superior State University operations.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$75,200

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST

$58,365

2024 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

$12,425

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$10,000

2024 MULTIPLE GRANTS AWARDED
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$9,600

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH

$9,250

2024 SEE STATEMENT 2.
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH

$9,250

2023 SEE STATEMENT 3.
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH

$9,250

2022 SEE STATEMENT 3.
ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$9,000

2022 SCHOLARSHIPS
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$8,576

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Lake Superior State University

501(c)(1) · Educational Institution - Four Year Public University · MI

Declared as related by

CENTRAL COLLEGIATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC

On its 2023 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.